Thunderbirds Danger Zone Live Play!
Tonight, 8th September 2022, Monkeys with Fire are doing a live game of our recent card game Thunderbirds: Danger Zone. Using characters and...
FAB Facts: What if Century 21 Did the Effects for Star Trek? | A Tenuous Connection
In this week’s slightly tenuous FAB Fact, we learn that a company called Anderson Co provided the special effects for Star Trek, and...
FAB Facts: UFO’s Ed Bishop and his inspiration for Ed Straker
In order to inform the cold and calculating nature seen in SHADO’s Commander Straker, Ed Bishop recalled a documentary about an American missile...
FAB Facts: The Ex-Disney Artist that Sketched for Gerry Anderson Shows
At the turn of the 1960s, before characters went to sculpting in Four Feather Falls and Supercar, they were first sketched by someone...
FAB Facts: The Influence of Captain Scarlet’s Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle
After Tom Scott’s backward driving test video, this FAB Fact looks into the Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle and the influence it has on an...
FAB Facts: When Roger Ebert insulted Thunderbirds – and the fanbase!
The 2004 Thunderbirds movie drew criticism from many sources, one of which was the popular American film critic Roger Ebert – but he...
FAB Facts: Gerry Anderson Forgot Lieutenant 90 when he created Joe 90
You may be wondering how the number 90 cropped up in both Fireball XL5 and Joe 90. It turns out Gerry Anderson simply...
FAB Facts: Terrahawks started life as an anime series?
Following the success of various Anderson shows in Japan, at one stage Gerry was approached to pitch a show to a Japanese network...
FAB Facts: The use of Thunderbirds music in Takeshi’s Castle
Japanese gameshow Takeshi’s Castle is a very popular show to this day, and often featured music from other areas of pop culture –...
FAB Facts: Supermarionation voice artists in live action Anderson shows
Many voice artists who leant their voices to the shows of Supermarionation also appeared later on down the line in the live action...